Refilling cartridges: Frugal or Stupid?

[HouseCat]

I want to reconstitute some GHK-Cu 50mg later today and plan on using 6mL BAC both to make my unit dose not super small and to mitigate some of the sting. I plan on using a pen, so 3mL is the max I can load into a cartridge. For the other 3mL, I could load those into a second cartridge or…

Store it in a 3mL vial, and then when my current cartridge is done, reload from the vial to the cartridge. Why and I thinking of this? To save on cartridge use: I have a lot of sterile 3mL vials and not that many cartridges. I buy carts from goodlifesupplies because I trust their sterility, but I also will have to pay a shipping fee to get more since I don’t have any big orders coming up. My main concern would be the sterility of putting the aliquot into my just-finished cartridge since pen needles are double sided. But if that’s a valid concern, wouldn’t there be sterility problems during the use of cartridges in general, especially toward the end?

Is this vial storage idea frugal problem solving or insomnia-induced idiocy?😜

 

[tcpnomad]

You really should not be reusing vials or cartridges. They both get pierced every time you inject, and the recommended practice it to discard them after 28 days of use (but most people use them till they are used up).

 

[BBA1969]

Seems like a very bad idea. How do you want to get the plunger back down? And since the inside of the vial has been long time exposed to fridge air, sterility is no longer. I would rather take my chances with cheaper cartridges of Ali.

 

[BrightCandle]

You don't reuse carts, vials, needles, syringes or filters they are all disposable one time use things. Every action increases the risk of contamination and the timer on bacteria growth starts the moment you pierce.

 

[Turbo-Farmer]

Your cartridge will leak. The self healing stopper in the cartridge will get weaker and weaker until it leaks out into your pen. I have seen it happen, more often with cheap needles.

I have had to transfer from one compromised cartridge to another to save an expensive blend.

In the end consumables are much cheaper than the peps, and safety is paramount.

 

[deluge]

I had to re-use several cartridges when the sled dog team got delayed with my delivery, last deployment.

Much like you can re-use needles if you must, (again, sled dog issue), it's not recommended, but desperate times, desperate measures, and so on. (Again, I point to the 30+yr Nurse who told me outside of the peptide world, nobody switches needles every day on daily injections).

I had no issues, but now that the sled dogs have delivered my resupply, I went to new cartridges. New needles too!

I dilute my 100mg of GHK-Cu with 6ml BAC water. I do this by injecting 3ml into the vial, suck out 1.5ml, and filter it into a cartridge. Then I pull another 3ml water and put 1.5ml into the cartridge, and 1.5ml into the vial. Store the vial in the fridge, to filter into the next cartridge when needed.